Letters to Pauline (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

Stendhal

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ISBN 10: 1843911671 ISBN 13: 9781843911678

Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2010

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"This intelligently presented selection of letters from an elder brother to his favourite sister covers Stendhal's early years. . . . It was an inspired editorial decision to isolate the letters to Pauline, for it is here that his writing is honed as a form of address. . . . The letters are also, poignantly, a window on the limitations of the lives of women." --"Times Literary Supplement"

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Determined to take his deeply loved younger sister Pauline’s education in hand, Henri Beyle?better known by the most famous of his scores of noms de plume, Stendhal?was obliged to continue her tuition in epistolary fashion on leaving Grenoble. In his letters to her he instructs her in what she should read (Plutarch, Molière, and Shakespeare); what to study (philosophy, logic, mathematics, and music); whether or not to get married (and to what kind of man); and generally how to enliven the tedium of a French provincial town. At the same time, he encourages her to think for herself?a process that, inevitably, reveals what he thought when thinking for himself.

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• Verlag: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1843911671
• ISBN 13: 9781843911678
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184